# amargar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin amāricāre, derived from Latin amārus (“bitter”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ə.mərˈɡa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [a.maɾˈɣaɾ]

### Verb

amargar (first-person singular present amargo, first-person singular preterite amarguí, past participle amargat)
* (intransitive) to have a bitter taste
** 1950, Josep Pla, Bodegó amb peixos:El moixó és un peix petit, que menja la vegetació del litoral i amarga una mica; té el gust una mica acre de les pastures assolellades.The big-scale sand smelt is a small fish which eats littoral vegetation and tastes a little bitter; it has the slightly acrid flavour of sunny pastures.
* (transitive) to make bitter or sour
* (transitive, figurative) to embitter, to sour, to spoil
** 1963, Àngel Sánchez Gozalbo, Els Viciana i la nostra literatura:Amargada i afligida per la soptada mort del fill fadrí, Jaume de Viciana, la vídua de Rampston s'arrecera al costat de la filla casada Àngela i se'n va a València, no sense abans vendre el propi patrimoni i l'heretat del vincle a Castelló i Borriana.Embittered and afflicted by the sudden death of her unmarried son, Jaume de Viciana, Rampston's widow took shelter at the side of her married daughter Àngela and went to Valencia, not without first selling her own inheritance and that held in security to Castelló i Borriana.

#### Related terms

* amarg

#### Further reading

* “amargar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Ladino
### Etymology

From Late Latin amāricāre, derived from Latin amārus (“bitter”).

### Verb

amargar (Latin spelling)
* to embitter, sadden

#### Related terms

* amargo

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Late Latin amāricāre, derived from Latin amārus (“bitter”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.maʁˈɡa(ʁ)/ [a.maɦˈɡa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.maʁˈɡa(ʁ)/ [a.maɦˈɡa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /a.maɾˈɡa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /a.maʁˈɡa(ʁ)/ [a.maʁˈɡa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.maɻˈɡa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.mɐɾˈɡaɾ/ [ɐ.mɐɾˈɣaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.mɐɾˈɡaɾ/ [ɐ.mɐɾˈɣaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.mɐɾˈɡa.ɾi/ [ɐ.mɐɾˈɣa.ɾi]

### Verb

amargar (first-person singular present amargo, first-person singular preterite amarguei, past participle amargado)
* to embitter (to cause to have an acrid taste)
* (figurative) to cause sorrow or grief
    Synonym: amargurar
    Antonym: desamargar
* (figurative) to wallow in sorrow or grief

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:amargar.

#### Related terms

* amargo
* amargor
* amargoso
* armargura

### Further reading

* “amargar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin amāricāre, derived from Latin amārus (“bitter”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /amaɾˈɡaɾ/ [a.maɾˈɣ̞aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: a‧mar‧gar

### Verb

amargar (first-person singular present amargo, first-person singular preterite amargué, past participle amargado)
* (transitive) to make bitter; embitter
* (reflexive) to go bitter, get bitter

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* a nadie le amarga un dulce
* amargado
* amargoso
* la verdad amarga

#### Related terms

* amargo

#### Further reading

* “amargar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10